Adidas Has Taken the Carbon Rods Out of the New Adizero Adios Pro 5
The Adios Pro 5 went on sale Tuesday at $275, weighing an average 177 grams, with a carbon ring around the midsole in place of the five rods Adidas has built its racing shoes around since 2020.
Brands and Gear News
UTMB Is Dropping Age-Group Qualification at Its World Series Majors
From 2027, only the top 10 men and women in each distance at the four Majors will earn a direct place at the Chamonix Finals, cutting each event’s allocation from 210 runners to 60.
Trail and Ultras
Eliud Kipchoge Says the Marathon World Record Will Keep Falling
Kipchoge, 41, set two world records on the Berlin course, and the mark he left there in 2022 has since been lowered by 99 seconds.
Elite Runners
Sydney Marathon Runners Set an Australian Charity Fundraising Record
The 36,296 finishers raised A$15.2 million ($10.8 million) for 545 charities in August, close to double the 2025 total. The ballot for the 2027 race opens Tuesday.
Race Coverage
The Elite Storylines to Watch at the Berlin Marathon on Sunday
The fastest marathon runner in history is out injured, Kenenisa Bekele is back at 44, and Tigst Assefa says she will attack a world record only one woman has come within a minute of since it was set.
Race Coverage
For The First Time In 15 Years, the New York City Marathon Has Changed Its Route
The change falls between miles 20 and 21 and cuts the turns in the borough from seven to five, the first alteration to the five-borough course since 2011.
Jessy Carveth
Dakotah Popehn Is Publishing a Memoir About What Came Before the Running
You Think This Hurts? arrives June 22, 2027, and reaches back to a stretch of middle school the Olympian spent living with her mother on other people’s sofas, in an abandoned building and in a Walmart parking lot.
Elite Runners
Chicago Marathon Adds Bashir Abdi as Alex Masai Withdraws
Organizers published a revised elite field on Tuesday, 19 days before the Oct. 11 race. Sixteen athletes are in, six are out, and one of the six finished third last year.
Race Coverage
A Mile-by-Mile Guide to the Berlin Marathon Course
The flattest course in the World Marathon Majors climbs a little over 240 feet across the whole 26.2 miles, and almost all of the damage it does is concentrated in three quiet residential miles in the southwest.
Race Coverage
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